Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is buzzing with excitement as it tracks a 500-foot asteroid, set to make a close pass by Earth on 28 October 2024. While its size may raise eyebrows, experts have ...

The asteroid is about 37 feet wide, about the size of a school bus. In relation to our moon, it is 300,000 times smaller. It was discovered on Aug. 7 during routine monitoring by scientists using ...

This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28, passing us at a distance of about 148,000 miles, which is closer to our planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance ...

linking them to the moon, Mars or Vesta (one of the largest asteroids in our solar system’s asteroid belt), per a statement. Now, though, an international team of experts has identified the ...

I remember watching the full moon rise one early evening a while back. It was when I still lived in Colorado, and I was standing outside in my yard. I first noticed a glow to the east lighting up ...

NASA has issued a warning of a stadium-sized asteroid heading straight towards Earth at high speed. The asteroid about 710 feet wide, comparable to a stadium, will approach the blue planet on ...

If future astronauts can reliably transform asteroid material into deep space sustenance, it could help future space missions be less reliant on receiving tons of food from Earth. There’s been a ...

Sunset at Atlas and Hercules Craters from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by Robert Reeves. The moon is back in fashion, but how well do you know it? It's been over 55 years since Neil ...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...